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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 01:24:56 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] remove set_tsk_need_resched() from init_idle()
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>i just noticed that Nick's latest idle-optimizations patch is not in 
>>>-rc4-mm2, so this will cause some clashes.
>>
>>Yeah, hmm. I've just got lazy with porting to other architectures and 
>>sending to Andrew. I'll get it into shape in the next day or so and so 
>>this patch will go on top of it hopefully before Andrew is ready to 
>>release the next kernel.
> 
> 
> we could do it in the other direction just as much - i only touched 3 
> architectures. Up to Andrew i guess.
> 

How about just setting need_resched at the start of the cpu_idle
function instead? Rather than changing the structure of the idle
loops themselves. That would suit me best.

Thanks,
Nick

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